Imperialism is defined as the need for economic resources of the wider world.
Cause for Imperialism?
The most basic cause of imperialism is the need for power and resources rooting in economic factors. This view was originally coined by J.A. Hobson and was taken up by Lenin and Marxist writers. Financers were pressing government to annex colonies in order to protect their overseas investments. This view has been criticized though because the annexation of colonies did not help overseas investments. Another view for the cause of imperialism states that the deep-rooted militaristic values causes the need for power. Two historians, Ronald Robinson and Jack Gallagher, stated that imperialism was “driven by strategic imperatives in the defense in the route to the Indian Empire, and threats developed in Africa and Asia.” Industries such as the production of cotton cloth required vast quantities of imported raw materials that could not be grown or produced in Europe. Cotton was grown in India, and the need for a cheap supply contributed to the spread of British interest and control in the region.
Imperialism Through a European's Eyes
Citizens living in Britain felt that the rule their government had over other countries was the best ever and there would never be anything better.
"We began to be, and we ultimately became a great Imperial power in the eighteenth century, but during the greater part of that time, the colonies were regarded, not only by us, but by every European power that possessed them, as possessions valuable in proportion to the pecuniary advantage which they brought to the mother country, which, under that order of ideas, was not truly a mother at all, but appeared rather in the light of a grasping and absentee landlord desiring to take from his tenants the utmost rents he could exact." -Joseph Chamberlain, British Secretary of the State
Many different countries tried to resist European Imperialism but only Liberia and Ethiopia succeeded.
How did European's easily force their rule on other countries?
Instead of using violence to gain countries, they spread missionaries.
Missionaries such and Hudson Taylor and Gladys Alyward entered China and showed people God's love.
European powers then discovered the power of slavery. Anyone that resisted their control was forced into slavery.
Europe did what they thought was right and this meant expansion.
What were the consequences of Imperialism?
A short term effect of Imperialism could include World War I.
Many different countries felt the impact of Imperialism through handovers and internal divisions.
Imperialism leaders forced new businesses to start and this caused unsafe working conditions.
The long term effects of Imperialism will always be felt throughout the world.
Kara McLaren
Imperialism is defined as the need for economic resources of the wider world.
Cause for Imperialism?
The most basic cause of imperialism is the need for power and resources rooting in economic factors. This view was originally coined by J.A. Hobson and was taken up by Lenin and Marxist writers. Financers were pressing government to annex colonies in order to protect their overseas investments. This view has been criticized though because the annexation of colonies did not help overseas investments. Another view for the cause of imperialism states that the deep-rooted militaristic values causes the need for power. Two historians, Ronald Robinson and Jack Gallagher, stated that imperialism was “driven by strategic imperatives in the defense in the route to the Indian Empire, and threats developed in Africa and Asia.” Industries such as the production of cotton cloth required vast quantities of imported raw materials that could not be grown or produced in Europe. Cotton was grown in India, and the need for a cheap supply contributed to the spread of British interest and control in the region.
Imperialism Through a European's Eyes
How did European's easily force their rule on other countries?
What were the consequences of Imperialism?
Works Cited
http://www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/essays/comp/cw30europejapanimperialism.htm
http://science.jrank.org/pages/9121/Empire-Imperialism-Europe-Causes.html